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Sleeve or Cuff Button. No. 240,116. Patented April 12,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FOSTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HENRY E. WAITE, OF SAME PLACE.

SLEEVE OR CUFF BUTTON.

. SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,116, dated April 12, 1881.

Application filed August 18, 1880.

- rc skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebein g had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I This invention relates to improvements in cuff and sleeve buttons, the principal feature of which is a spring sliding and locking frame or slide for securing the button firmly in the cuff or sleeve, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the button; Fig. 2, aside view, show in g the button inserted in a cuff; Fig. 3, a plan Fig. 4, an end view, the sliding frame or slide being in cross-section; Fig. 5, an end view of Fig. 3; Figs. 6 and 7, detailed views of modifications.

A is the head or front of the button, and B the shank, which may be made in one piece,

if desired, and of metal, ivory, or other suitable material.

D represents a spring lockin g slide or frame, made of a single piece of wire passing through two holes in the lower part of the shank (see 3 5 Fig. 4) and bent into the shape shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the sides being nearer together at the center of its length, and tapering outward therefrom, forming an angle there.- One end of this slide D is left open, making a spring of 40 it, and the ends of the wire bent into books or stops at a.

C is a perforated groove or recess cut across the shank B, into which the said stops at a fit when the slide is drawn back fully to one side,

as shown in Fig. 3, thus preventing the slide from accidentally slipping or being pulled out of the shank B when pulled to one side, as in Fig. 3.

(No model.)

To insert the button into the cuff or sleeve,

the spring-slide D is drawn back from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that of Fig. 3, the stops at a lying in the recess C and held therein by the tendency of the slide to spring apart, leaving one side of the shank entirely free or clear. The slide and shank are now passed 5 5 through the button-holes and the slide moved in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3, until its bend or angle strikes the shank, the spring of the slide preventing its slipping back again,

when the button is securely held or locked in the cuff or sleeve.

To release the button the slide is drawn in the opposite direction, leaving one side of the shank clear, and it may be easily removed from the cuff.

Instead of making the slide D a spring-slide, it may be a closed rectangular wire frame or a flat thin plate of metal, as in Figs. 6 and 7, in which case the shank B is bent at a right angle to one side, forming a shoe, through which the slide works.

I am aware that spring-fasteners formed of bent wire have been heretofore made to pass through the eye of a button to hold the same in place, and that spring locking-plates have also been used in conjunction with the hattened and slotted shanks of buttons. These, however, I do not broadly claim; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a sleeve-button, of the head A, shank B, having perforated recess C, and the spring locking-slide D, composed of a spring wire frame tapering outward from its 8 center to each end, the free ends of said frame being provided with stops or hooks a. a, as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. A. FOSTER.

Witnesses JAS. B. BELL, JOHN J. KINE. 

